Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene publishes original, peer-reviewed articles, and invited reviews across a broad range of topics relevant to the Society's goals, including: clinical tropical medicine and case reports, infectious diseases, parasitology and entomology, microbiology and virology, epidemiology, chemotherapy, immunology, public health, including social science. A key objective is to present the results of research that are broadly intelligible to workers from a range of disciplines. We welcome articles on translational research that may impact directly on clinical and public health practice in developing countries and those describing the application of new technologies in tropical medicine.